Lew Landers(1901-1962)
- Director
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Rivaling Sam Newfield and William Beaudine as one of the American film industry's
most prolific directors, Lew Landers began directing features in the
mid-'30s under his real name of Louis Friedlander, but changed it to
Lew Landers after several films. His first effort, Le Corbeau (1935), with
Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, was probably his best. Landers worked for just
about every studio in Hollywood during his long career, but spent a lot
of time at RKO and Columbia turning out low-budget adventure epics,
thrillers and westerns. In the 1950s he turned to series television, as
many of his fellow B directors did, and alternated between that and
features for the remainder of his career.
